Check your Anderson battery connectors

[Zyrano]

The students are still recovering from the regional, so just in case anyone else is experiencing power lost on defenses or robot to robot impact, I know there are posts out there already to check your radio and roborio, but just to share our findings and avoid someone else figuring this out the hard way.

sadly, it took the entire regional to get to the root cause, which really frustrated the team...

Anyway, if you are experiencing power lost and reboot on impact, after checking the radio power and roborio, give your Anderson battery connect some twisting and pulling. we were able to reliably cause a reset when we did this. we are still trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with the connector (weak spring? wear and tear? too much cable movement?) but what we did find is that just within the 10 or so connectors we had with us at the regional, there were at least 3 lug designs and possibly 2 housing designs (not sure if it was a tolerance thing or a design change). we'll be contacting Anderson to get more information, but one thing that comes to mind is weather they are backwards compatible. These connectors all came the way assembled and were never taken apart till the issue was found. I'm also not sure whether andymark assembles these or if they came assembled with cable from Anderson, so will try to up date this as we figure out more details.